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...Hardly anyone makes experimental movies today. Directors are afraid that, for even a moment, they will lose, addle or exasperate the audience. The wisdom from behind the megaphone is: Go bigger, go simpler. As a result, most American films are sitcoms, predictable from first reel to last. More precisely (in this era of Short Attention Span Cinema), they are commercials, peddling primitive stories with comfortable emotions. Today's typical filmmaker is a moneychanger in a fine old temple. And Altman, ostensibly the iconoclast, is actually the idealist, the conservative, keeping the faith, fighting to preserve what's best in movies...
...wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more beautiful than any drunken reel or inebriated burst of song. The Silk Road Ensemble held an open rehearsal with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), hosted by Geisinger Professor of History William C. Kirby last Tuesday in Sanders Theatre. Ma dropped his role as emcee during the last piece, and joined in on his cello. The ensemble...
...fired a shot. Stone appeared to have the save, but the ball deflected off of her and toward the feet of a waiting Okuji, who knocked it home easily for her first collegiate goal. Earlier in the half, freshman goalkeeper Lauren Mann added to her season-long highlight reel of outstanding saves when she leapt to tip Alison Peters’s breakaway shot just over the crossbar. But Mann (six saves) was helpless on the two goals that did make Holy Cross’s side of the scoreboard, as Stand converted from point-blank range on both attempts...
...core fans, who are 1% of the audience, to broadcast some of these cool little discoveries to perhaps 10% of their audience. Those are the great evangelists for the show, the 10% who are out there saying, Oh, God, I am so addicted to this show." And they help reel in the other 90%, which is where gratifying the superfans pays off. "Let's say I go to a Bruce Springsteen show, and he plays for four hours instead of two hours," says Lindelof. "Why? What is he getting out of it? Your ticket price is exactly the same...
...those of you who remember Woody Allen's mix of real and reel lives in The Purple Rose of Cairo - or if you sometimes think your life is a movie, and wonder what the DVD commentary would sound like - Stranger Than Fiction will strike a familiar chord. But mainly, Helm's script might have been confected to answer a Hollywood mogul's call, "Give me a Charlie Kaufman script, but make it adorable. The movie answers that call. With busy, doesn't-miss-a-trick direction by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and supporting performances, including Maggie Gyllenhaal...